If you use `<i lang="la">sic transit gloria mundi</la>` then your screen reader should read the text in a Latin accent rather than munging whatever your default language is.
As for the rest, they look the same now. But HTML is supposed to be future proof.
Suppose, in the future, people prefer emphasised text to slant backwards, definitions to hover holographically, and cites to render directly to your neural link. Or, suppose right now you want to screen-scrape a page and get all the definitions.
As for the rest, they look the same now. But HTML is supposed to be future proof.
Suppose, in the future, people prefer emphasised text to slant backwards, definitions to hover holographically, and cites to render directly to your neural link. Or, suppose right now you want to screen-scrape a page and get all the definitions.
That's why I use semantic HTML.